Spring training programme
In March 2025, the IETM Green School focused on ‘re-imagining international collaborations’, with key inspirators and experts providing insights into innovative greening methodologies for change. We therefore hosted an online Kick off session on Monday 24 February at 15:00 - 16:00 CET (calculate your timezone) to delve into the programme and its opportunities for IETM members only.
Ant Hampton - ‘Showing without going’ and ‘The Thing’
Tuesday 11 March / Tuesday 18 March / Tuesday 25 March
14:00 - 15:30 CET (calculate your time zone)
Ant Hampton’s contribution to the IETM Green School will be spread over three sessions, each 90 minutes long, and looks into the concept of ‘Showing Without Going’: the practical, theoretical, artistic, ethical and logistical implications of creating, producing, programming, sending, receiving and/or presenting LIVE performance work without the artist travelling. Through this, he offers his earlier workshop/performance created with Christophe Meierhans - ‘The THING’ - by allowing participants to experience the first of what is normally a four day experience that runs ‘automatically’, entirely without anyone present leading it.
TaikaBox and Stephanie Felber - Erasing borders: Tools for sustainable collaboration
Thursday 13 March
13:00 - 14:30 CET (calculate your time zone)
Since 2014, Tanja Råman and John Collingswood from the Oulu-based dance/tech association TaikaBox have been using technology to reduce the amount of travel required to work internationally. In this edition of the IETM Green School, we will welcome them in a conversation with IETM member Stephanie Felber, choreographer and videographer, to dive into their ongoing collaborative research using the Connected Studio System, tech tool developed by TaikaBox to connect geographically remote spaces and create performances together in a telemetric space.
Green Arts Initiatives in Ireland - Embedding Climate Action in the Arts Sector: An Irish Perspective
Wednesday 19 March
13:00 - 14:30 CET (calculate your time zone)
This edition of the Green School will welcome Catríona Fallon, co-Founder of Green Arts Initiative Ireland, a project run with IETM Member Performing Arts Forum under the guidance of IETM Member Creative Carbon Scotland. Since 2020, Green Arts Initiative Ireland has been conducting pilot projects giving support to arts organisations to reduce their carbon footprint and overall environmental impacts.